A quote I love...

[housemouse]

Here is a quote from Dwight Eisenhower that I came across during the first Gulf War. I have kept it since and now I am posting it here:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

[pennylane]

I think it is very important for the citizens of a country, especially a country at war, to support their president and his policies. "America, love it or leave it", that is what may parents always taught me.

[housemouse]

pennylane said:

I think it is very important for the citizens of a country, especially a country at war, to support their president and his policies. "America, love it or leave it", that is what may parents always taught me.

I'm sorry Penny! I honestly didn't mean to offend anyone!

[mlm828]

One quote I have always liked is attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

[maggiethecat]

From literary critic Lionel Trilling:

"Immature artists imitate -- mature artists steal."

Been using that one for years!

[anna]

Gore Vidal, on being asked by Kenneth Tynan to be godfather to Tynan's daughter:

"Always a godfather . . . never a god."